Example sentences of "what [pron] has be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 2 | ‘ She confirmed what she has been attempting to gloss over in her bid to become deputy leader — that she is still as left wing as ever … a unilateralist in the mould of Tony Benn himself . |
| 3 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 4 | In fact what he has been using are exactly the same as the cheap mass-produced lasers used in CD machines . |
| 5 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 6 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 7 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |
| 8 | Who knows what he has been dreaming ? |
| 9 | Hamish McLeod from the University of Edinburgh will describe what he has been doing and discuss what teachers might do . |
| 10 | When an animal is predictably going to continue to do what it has been doing , a signal is uninformative . |
| 11 | A glance at the coupon of the new issue and what it has been paying out on the ones being redeemed shows the reason for the moves . |